Mini-school on Entanglement and Quantum Phase Transition

31 October ~ 2 November 2017
30 November ~ 2 December 2017
Pohang, Korea


■ Lecture #2

    Entanglement and Quantum Phase Transitions

    • Lecturer: Rosario Fazio (ICTP)

    • Dates: 30 Nov ~ 2 Dec 2017

    Thu 30 Nov 1:30 ~ 15:00
    Lecture 1: Introduction to entanglement

    • Classical vs quantum correlations

    • Entanglement measures

    Thu 30 Nov 16:00 ~ 17:30
    Lecture 2: Quantum phase transitions

    • Basic review on scaling close to a quantum critical point

    Fri 1 Dec 13:30 ~ 15:00
    Lecture 3: Equilibrium properties

    • T=0 two-site entanglement

    • T=0 entanglement entropy

    • T=0 multi-partite entanglement

    • Thermal entanglement

    Fri 1 Dec 16:00 ~ 17:30
    Lecture 4: Quantum quenches

    • Dynamics of entanglement following a quantum quench

    Sat 2 Dec 9:00 ~ 10:30
    Lecture 5: Adiabatic dynamics

    • Kibble-Zurek mechanism

    • Evolution of entanglement

    Sat 2 Dec 11:00 ~ 12:30
    Lecture 6: Experimental detection

    • Proposals to measure entanglement in many-body systems

    • Review on experimental status